ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,879, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Real-time radio access network analytics" was invented by Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain), Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yongguang Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Arun Bhamidimarri (North Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for providing radio access network (RAN) analytics for a virtualized base station. An analytics engine includes a memory storing one or more parameters or instructions for operating the virtualized RAN and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The analytics ...